Literature and Journalism in Antebellum America

Thoreau, Stowe, and Their Contemporaries Respond to the Rise of the Commercial Press

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Gebonden, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US | e druk, 2011
ISBN13: 9780230110946
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Palgrave Macmillan US e druk, 2011 9780230110946
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Explores the sibling rivalry that emerged in the American literary marketplace in the decades after the advent of the penny press, showing how journalism became a target, a counterpoint, and even a model for numerous American authors, including Thoreau, Cooper, Poe, and Stowe.

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ISBN13:9780230110946
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US

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PART I: ENCOUNTERS AND CRITIQUES Common Ground Critical Readers, Beleaguered Subjects, and Crossover Writers Literary Critiques of Journalism PART II: NEWS OF THEIR OWN Dispatches from the Fringe Truthful Hoaxes Investigative Fiction Epilogue

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